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Trena Bolden Fields interviews the talented Barbara Kingsley on her passion for acting.

 

Barbara Kingsley is a multi-tasking theater artist. Stage credits include over two hundred productions, at theaters across the country, including Broadway. She has appeared locally at the Guthrie, Ten Thousand Things Theater, Jungle Theater and Park Square Theatre. Barbara won a Kudos award for her performance as Dorine, in Tartuffe and has enjoyed creating a broad spectrum of characters: Hedda Gabler, Bananas, in House of Blue Leaves, Ariel in The Tempest, Alice B. Toklas in Gertrude Stein and a Companion, and most recently, Violet in  August: Osage County. She has been a member of the Dept. of Theatre & Dance adjunct faculty at the University of Minnesota, since 1998 and is a Teaching Artist in the Guthrie Theater Education dept. Writing credits include a screenplay and three stage plays. Barbara is a recipient of a 2011 – 2012 Minnesota State Arts Board/ National Endowment  for the Arts Artist Initiative Grant for her play, Under This Roof and the 2013 MRAC Next Step Grant for her play, I am Proof Of Me.

Re-recording our show from this Friday, July 26: This year, the Minnesota Department of Revenue ruled that a musician/performer was a hobbyist and could not claim tax deductions for her work. What does this mean for all artists across the country? Is the work of artists devalued because the work is about creation?

Our normal Wednesday show will be moved to this Friday, July 26 at 12:00 noon CT for a special show:

This year, the Minnesota Department of Revenue ruled that a musician/performer was a hobbyist and could not claim tax deductions for her work.

What does this mean for all artists across the country?Is the work of artists devalued because the work is about creation?

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Trena Bolden Fields interviews actor Raye Birk about passion and his defining moment. 

Raye Birk is a native of Flint, Michigan. His theatre training includes degrees from Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois and the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis. He has acted at the Guthrie Theater, including PRIDE AND PREJUDICE, PYGMALION, HIS GIRL FRIDAY, MACBETH, 1776, THE GREAT GATSBY, THIRD, A DELICATE BALANCE, FAITH HEALER,  THE WINTER’S TALE, THE SUNSHINE BOYS, LONG DAYS JOURNEY INTO NIGHT as  well as appearing as Scrooge in A CHRISTMAS CAROL for four seasons. He recently played KING LEAR  for the Park Square Theatre in St. Paul. Mr. Birk has appeared in nearly 150 television shows and his credits include recurring roles on LA LAW, THE WONDER YEARS, COACH, SILK STALKINGS, DEAR JOHN, THE POPCORN KID and now THE BLACK SCORPION; episodes of BABYLON 5, X-FILES, 3rd ROCK FROM THE SUN, TOUCHED BY AN ANGEL, ER, SEINFELD, MURPHY BROWN, STAR TREK, PICKET FENCES, ALF, and PERRY MASON to name a few, and numerous TV movies.  His feature films appearances include BURGLAR, THROW MOMMA FROM THE TRAIN, THE WAR OF THE ROSES, NAKED GUN & NAKED GUN 33 1/3, CLASS ACT and DOC HOLLYWOOD. Since moving to the Twin Cities he has done four feature films: FACTOTUM. NORTH COUNTRY, SWEETLAND and most recently, theCoen’s brothers A SERIOUS MAN.

Host, Trena Bolden Fields discusses having a passion for acting.

Today we are asking you, our listening audience, to call in with your comments about Oprah's Next Chapter-Black Women In Hollywood. We are also featuring Trena Bolden Fields' interview with award winning actress, Lillie Richardson on how to build resilience in the acting industry.

Lillie Richardson is an award winning actress originally from Fort Walton Beach, Florida. She recently performed with Arizona Theatre Company in Sunshine Boys.

She last performed with ATC in the award winning farce, Scapin. Ms. Richardson resides in both Tempe, AZ and Los Angeles these days working on both film and stage.

Previous stage credits include her portrayal of Rose in BTT's Fences which won her a Zoni Award for best Actress, Claudia in The Bluest Eye and Undine in Fabulation. She appeared as the Angel in both parts of Angels in America, as Ms Muller in Doubt, and as Elizabeth in the hilarious comedy In the Next Room with Actors Theatre. Some of her favorite roles include Tonya in King Hedley II, Paulina in Death and the Maiden, Sylvia in The Women, Alais in  Lion in Winter;  Susie in Wit; and Karen in Speed the Plow. Her film and television credits include the role of Shauna in six episodes of the Starz original series, Crash,  Linda in This Bitter Earth,  Truth about Jane, Young Riders, Seduced and Betrayed and Warner Bros. The Fugitive.

Host, Trena Bolden Fields interviews actor, vocalist, educator, writer and speaker extraordinaire T. Mychael Rambo on networking and how your contacts can help you book work.

 

Emmy Award winning actor, vocalist, arts educator and community organizer; T. Mychael Rambo has performed principle roles at the Guthrie; Penumbra, Ordway, Illusion, Mixed Blood, Park Square Theatre, Children’s Theatre and the Fitzgerald Theaters among others.  Rambo has performed nationally, including Carnegie Hall, Off-Broadway and abroad. He has appeared in local and national television commercials, feature films, HBO mini-series, and other television programming He has also released two popular CD's: Simply - a collection of jazz standards; andThe Gift: A Christmas With Love - a selection of original and holiday classics. T. Mychael had the great honor of singing the National Anthem for President Obama during his 2009 visit to the Twin Cities and former President Jimmy Carter in 2010. Mr. Rambo is also the proud recipient of the 2010 Sally Award in Arts Education, presented by the Ordway Theatre for the Performing Arts, as well as a Minnesota Black Music Award, also in 2010.  His honors and awards include Young Audience Art of the Year, McKnight Theatre Artist Fellowship, Minnesota State Arts Board Artist Fellowship, and both the University of Minnesota Century Council Community Award and Outstanding Community Service Award, to name a few.

Trena Bolden Fields welcomes award-winning theatre artist, Randy Reyes to discuss how education played a role in where he is today.    Randy Reyes is a theater actor/director/ educator in the Twin Cities.  He got his training at the University of Utah and The Juilliard School.  Randy has performed at the Guthrie, Mixed Blood, Ten Thousand Things, and Mu Performing Arts.  He's directed for Mu, The Pillsbury House, Theatre in the Round, and Ten Thousand Things.  He's taught at NYU Grad Acting Program, U of Minnesota/Guthrie BFA Acting Program, The Guthrie Experience, Augsburg College, and Macalester.  Randy moved to the Twin Cities from NYC eight years ago and is the incoming Artistic Director of Mu Performing Arts, a 21 year old company that does theater and taiko from the heart of the Asian American experience.

Kim Hines first set foot on the professional stage as a child when she became the member of the Children's Theatre Company in Minneapolis. Kim has performed at Mixed Blood, Illusion, Penumbra  and the Guthrie. As a director, Kim has worked with Mu Performing Arts, Park Square, Theater in the Round, The Great American History Theater, Illusion Theater, Theatre Unbound, Augsburg College, Cornell University in New York, University of Northern Iowa and Kansas University. Her writtern work has been produced at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Kim holds a B.A. in Speech & Theater and Visual Art from Macalester College.

Sean Byrd is an actor/director/teacher with a BFA in acting/directing from Stephen F. Austin State University and an MFA in Performance Studies from Western Illinois University.  He was a founding company member and Producing Director of Wax Fruit Theatre Company in Chicago. In the Twin Cities, Sean has acted with such threatres as 15 Head: A Theatre Lab, The Minnesota Shakespeare Project, Fifty Foot Penguin, Pig’s Eye, Sandbox and Hardcover. In 2012, he appeared in Walking Shadow Theatre Company’s production of Compleat Female Stage Beauty which won the Ivey Award for Production Excellence. He is a full-time faculty member and director in the Department of Theatre at Normandale College in Bloomington, MN. He is married to director/actor, Anne Byrd. They have one daughter, Terri and two granddaughters, Holly and Harriet.

Our show on avoiding the common pitfalls will help parents learn what to look out for and what they can begin to do in building their child's acting career. We will also hear from Tyler Dillon, a child actor based in Minnesota.  He has done work for Target and Best Buy, to name a few. During the show he will offer advice to child actors and parents of child actors.